I really liked the first Ramones album, I was surprised, yet pleased how melodic and poppy (rather than hard and dark) it was (mainly thanks to Joey's smooth pop voice + all their songs being based on major rather than minor keys), I associated it with the early Beach Boys in fact - "all of the songs sound the same, but they have an immediately recognizable sound, and if you like one song, you like them all".
That, of course, isn't a bad thing in my book or I wouldn't here be waving the Status Quo flag now and then.
To this day I find "The Wall" bloated - Pink Floyd goes Meat Loaf
-, I was a "Wish you were here" (the album) guy (the krautrock tranquility of it), but in the last ten years or so, "Animals" has really climbed up the ladder with me. I'm actually seeing Gilmour this week at the RAH and we have good seats too. I am blighted with a wife who thinks that David Gilmour is the best-singing, best guitar-playing, most handsome man on earth.